"After all, if it comes to that, there is really neither Ogun nor Jesus! There are only mystified forms of our consciousness."
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"The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness."
"All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever."
"What I know for sure is that I am a temporary expression in physical form of the one consciousness that expresses itself throughout the universe. I am not separate from that."
"No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness."
"Thoughts come and go like leaves in the wind, but the core of consciousness is forever."
"When we transcend our own thoughts, we get in touch with the womb of creation."
"You are no more in your body than Beethoven is inside your radio."
"The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities."
"When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life."
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"Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness."
"If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass.""
"The whole creation is the dance of one consciousness"
"Paradise is not a place; it's a state of consciousness."
"Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness."
"Christ, Buddha, and Krishna are but waves in the Ocean of Infinite Consciousness that I am!"
"By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness."
"Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence."
"Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in."